The White House reports that South Korean accesses downed their homepage after a petition demanding the US make schools stop using the “Sea of Japan” name in their textbooks inflamed the passions of nationalists.

The trouble began when a Virginia-based Korean pressure group started a petition on the White House’s “We the People” petition system, demanding that the federal government ban school textbooks from referring to the sea to west of Japan as “the Sea of Japan,” and instead call solely it “the East Sea.”

The text of the initial petition, which cannily attempts to present the obscure naming dispute as correcting injustices being inflicted on children and veterans, both of which obsess American politicians:

The East Sea – a FALSE history in our textbooks!

We are teaching our children a FALSE history in classrooms:

1. As a result of gruesome military expansionism, Japan changed “East Sea” (the original name of sea bordered by Korea, Russia, and Japan) to “Sea of Japan” in 1928

2. Korea was liberated in 1945, but Japan still refuses to return “East Sea” to its original identity.

3. Our veterans were the major force defeating Japan in World War II. We helped Korea to regain its freedom.

4. However, we are still teaching our children a FALSE history that was manipulated by the invader who attacked “Pearl Harbor”.

Please join us and sign this petition to correct a FALSE history in our textbooks. Our children have right to learn a TRUE history!

Given that in the US the federal government has nothing to do with selecting school textbooks (they are selected by schools from a list approved by the local state), there are some grounds to doubt whether the original petition was actually launched by anyone familiar with American politics.

The naming dispute has long inflamed Korean nationalists, although the issue arouses very little interest elsewhere.

Their usual tactic has been to cajole international organisations, map providers and even nations of some standing into dropping the “Sea of Japan” name, or failing that to include both in the hopes that they can get it dropped completely later.

This campaign seems to have stalled of late, with the International Hydrographic Organization recently opting to preserve “Sea of Japan” as the sole name of the sea, with only South Korea voting in favour of its proposal for it to be renamed “East Sea.”

The unusual fervour and international meddling of Korean nationalists has many in Japan concerned, and a counter-petition was launched:

Sea of Japan -the authentic history in our textbooks! We are teaching our children the authentic history, so why change?

We should definitely keep the Sea of Japan as it is now.

1. Contrary to the Korean claim that Japan changed “East Sea” to “Sea of Japan” in 1928, the Sea of Japan has always been the Sea of Japan, since the beginning of time.

2. South Koreans are under heavy communism influence because of communist North Korea, and have forgotten about the massive American blood spilled to defend them from the North Korean invasion aided by Russians and Communist Chinese during the Korean War in the ’50s. Now they want the American forces out. Their extreme ethnocentricity blinds them and they want to rewrite history per their stories. That is plain wrong.

Please join us and sign this petition to stop FALSIFYING history in our textbooks. Our children have right to keep learning a TRUE history!

The issue was widely reported in the Korean media, and soon both petitions became widely circulated online, with organised efforts in each country to flood the petitions with signatures in support of their position.

The White House subsequently reported that on the 20th of April the server was downed by heavy traffic and traffic analysis suggested the vast majority of the IPs involved were from South Korea.

The White House’s response was to temporarily block Korean access to the site until the flood of traffic abated.

They did not comment on whether the traffic was part of a denial of service attack (a popular tactic with Korean nationalists) or merely the result of an excessively intense effort to spam signatures originating in Korea.

It is not clear whether there are any restrictions on anonymous non-US citizens spamming petitions and signatures implemented on the site.

However, as the US government appears not to have actually acted on any of the petitions, preferring to cherry-pick popular petitions for brief official responses which explain how its existing policy in fact already addresses the petition’s request, this may be a moot point.

Perhaps you should spend some time actually developing some job skills, and not relying on what they told you about how valuable they told you that liberal arts degree of yours is; if you even finished.

BTW does your anus hurt when you see the guys with the asian nerds with engineering degrees buying houses and Corvettes?

Not in SanCom in all my time. I have other otaku interests, they take much more time.
Oh, i play guitar and bass too, ZZ Top type of stuff, and sometimes Be-Bop Jazz. But i like modern metal too.
I live in Sweden, we have good retirement money saving and paying system. Not millions, but in average 3500 dollar a month is the norm, if you have taken care of your rights, and earned average income.

lol at black people. they always complain that the reason they're poor is because they're a "minority", but they already have two minorities beating them, including one group (asians) beating their former master race (whites)...

It is racism because not every black person is like that, so all you are doing is throwing off your biased ignorant opinion as fact, when unless you know every black person in this country you need to shut your mouth and get educated more.

Nobody ever said anything about all blacks. The one with biased opinion is you.

I have to agree with the two people who have apparently been voted down. It seems some of the people that visit sancom are a racists lot. See, I said 'SOME';keyword. I wouldn't have felt that this comment was so blatantly racist if included that one keyword.

It is racism because not every black person is like that, so all you are doing is throwing off your biased ignorant opinion as fact, when unless you know every black person in this country you need to shut your mouth and get educated more.

Number one reason they are poor is that attitude the man is keeping them down.
From birth there is no man keeping them down.
Instead it's their culture.
The glorification of the thug lifestyle which in turn eventually gets them arrested and then the broken criminal justice system keeps them down.
Admittedly if the criminal justice system was not completely broken they'd be more successful as a group but it alone is not enough to be the main factor.
The thug style such as gold teeth etc can send the wrong message to a prospective employer that this person may steal or slack off even though it may be completely untrue.
The same applies to other races as well though they usually know yes I have to ware a suit to an interview.

Still sickening how this has degraded in a bunch of tiny minded racist arguments vs the name of stretch of ocean no one really gives a fuck about.
I suggest it be renamed the sea of piss and moan.

Criminal justice system is not as bad as those in the world, and US has much more work at hand than nations not having problems with 'multiculturalism' or massive influx of immigrants.

Most tend of overemphasize the failings of justice system rather than seeing that ordinary citizens just can't handle their 'freedom' responsibly and dig their own graves. Most of, if not all the laws in this country is fairly common sense and straight forward. Don't do unto others what you would not want to have done onto you. Those people just can't help but put themselves above others.

Is the White Man threatening blacks to do drugs at the point of a knife? Is the 'Man' keeping them down by telling them to go to school and get education? See how Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson derogates Obama, a successful harvard grad, with 'talking down to blacks'. It's this kind of mentality that keeps blacks in socio-cultural shackles.

I agree with most of this. Not about the sea part but the rest. I myself am black and it disgust me when I see someone applying for a job with their pants half way off their ass accompanied by grills in their teeth. It's a style I practically hate.
I wish rappers now a days used their power of influence to push children in the right direction.

LOL you pussy traitor yellow immigrant fucktards need to go and live in 15th century you are pathetic genetic trash of white and black ancestors from historic times long before your even moved into east asia.

actually, if you really get technical, then there are only two 'real human ancestors' in the world: cro-magnon/neanderthals and homo erectus each intermingled with homosapiens to create modern humans way back in times. closest ethnic relatives of these ancestors are whites from russia-west europe and africans.

any other race is merely a derivative to immigrated to their present location. so there are no real 'natives' aside from these two, and america is merely one of two original human ethnicities claiming and raising a nation rightfully as the original ancestors of human kind.

Of course America belongs to the whites. World belongs to whites and blacks, all other are mere derivatives and should do as we say.

....does this sound like BS? it's actually no more of BS than usual ethno-centric crap you hear from any other cultures/races.

You wanna beat your kids, send them to the army. You actually want them to make something out of life, raise them properly with some education and morals. Asians beating their kids never contributed to making them better persons or their earning more if you're actually stupid enough to believe that.

Yes, beating their ass does not work (risk of abusing your child into depression or worse sociopathy), but then again not beating their ass does not work (spoiled brats and hikikiomoris). If you think about it, having children is not worth it simply due to being highly unpredictable.

I'd take social hipsters and bratty teens over the socially inept, suicidally-prone mental fuckups you see so much in this generation's asian countries. Yeah they might make tolerant, obedient labor workers, but I doubt beating their asses prompt any "success" in future careers.

because most modern 'asians', and those that comes here are no longer 'boat people' but are simply taking advantage of education systems while their parents who are doctors, professors, and rich spoiled and sheltered idiots in their own country who pay their expenses out of their asses. It's much easier to claim that your ethnicity is doing well when the majority of their socio-economic caste background is really set to begin with - only the semi-well off/rich can even afford to come here and they are the majority/significant minority, so of course their median is going to be higher. considering that, I am surprised that it is so low - is it the complacency and ineptitude of asians in general that causes them to perform so badly even when presented with all the advantages their homeland can give them?

there are plenty of poor asians lazier and doing worse than other immigrants (even mexicans) but of course they never mention their 'shame'.

"there are plenty of poor asians lazier and doing worse than other immigrants (even mexicans) but of course they never mention their "shame'."

You won`t find too many of such ppl in South Korea and Japan, even China has activated itself. You must mean some South-East Asian island countries...but even Indonesia is developing to more industrious nation.

you must not get out much than, or lived anywhere there much. Guys with broken legs pushing carts trying to peddle 5th rate crap, a kid kneeling on side of the road with a sign that says 'please spare some change i need to save money to buy airticket and go back to korea', people living in markets basically off the hand while being trampled by rich fucks with money that their corrupt daddy gave them out of pocket.

But they either hide it, ignore it, or deny and deny again.

Go actually live there and see it during your life as part of that place - you have no idea what you are talking about.

Actually that info is incorrect.
Overall Median for full time workers 25 to 64.

White $40,442
Asian $42,109
Black $32,021
Hispanic $27,266

Whites and Asian are fairly close.

Now for the lutz I'll post the most successful Asian demographic in the US Asian Indians they tend to make much more then other ethnic group.

Why a lot tend to be doctors this is not race but simply because a lot of Indian doctors go to the US because they can earn four or five times as much as back in their home country.
Yes the US considers people from India Asian even though genetically they're Caucasoid and Australoid vs Mongoloid making them more related to either Polynesians and Europeans vs lets say Chinese.
These skilled immigrates are mostly why Asian are higher up.
Why are Hispanics come up so low well a lot come in illegally and take low pay jobs and do not get the benefits and pay legal workers get.

Black simple not many choose to go to college the gansta culture is their real worst enemy.

The only reason Japs are doing so well is because their white masters have given them this privilege since they have been loyal slaves.
Same with inferior Koreans.
Gooks are natural born slaves to their white superiors.

asian median income tends to be high because many recent asian immigrants are allowed in US because of their investment potential, educational goals or other financial activities. considering the types of immigrants here and the smaller group size, it is no surprise that the median income is much higher than other groups. white median income, on the other hand, includes the poorest to the richest white americans hence the reason why they don't have the highest figure. i bet you the numbers will be much different if you look at the mean average instead of the median.